HR and Training Articles & Whitepapers

Training events on their own aren’t enough to ensure lasting performance improvement, but what can you do? Elevate any learning effort from program to performance improvement initiative with these six best practices.

Learning, the acquisition of new skills, knowledge, and capabilities, always occurs within the context of human performance improvement! Wilson Learning approaches every client situation from this perspective. That is, we begin with a process of understanding the client's needs, expectations, situation, and problems. learn more

As markets heat up all over the world, companies strive to develop strategies and tactics to contend with today's dynamic conditions, or at least survive them. "Hypercompetition is an environment of intense change in which flexible, aggressive, innovative competitors move into markets easily and rapidly, eroding the advantages of the large and established players." learn more

Training events on their own aren’t enough to ensure lasting performance improvement, but what can you do? Elevate any learning effort from program to performance improvement initiative with these six best practices.
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What does work is to combine the most critical components required for learning into a comprehensive, extended learning system. Such a system lays a foundation for the learner, establishes the why and the how for learning and provides application support to make sure newly acquired skills and knowledge are used on the job. learn more

Senior business leaders increasingly see shortages of skills as a major impediment to executing their business strategies. To handle these oncoming performance gaps the L&D role must move out of the training silo and into the strategic conversation. Discover 3 strategies to help maximize the value of L&D's business role within the organization. learn more

Improving the alignment of the core functional elements, the go-to-market strategy, and the customer experience is the ultimate objective of sales enablement. Accomplishing this triple alignment requires coordination across multiple functions, including Learning and Development. Read more about what executives are demanding from today's L&D professionals. learn more

If you ask a busy learning professional about learning transfer, you'll likely hear two things: First, it's very important; second, it's very hard. So what is it about the process that makes learning transfer so challenging? learn more

Managers play a pivotal role in the transfer of learning and helping to drive performance results. But how can we best leverage busy managers' involvement in maximizing learning transfer? We've honed it down to three practical yet effective tips. learn more